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Ginn

talking about love is like dancing about architecture

About Me

punk rock momma



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My Interests

hanging out with my amazing daughter and fabulous fiance; vegetarianism; reading anything that i can get my hands on; going to the library and used bookstores; watching art and foreign films, as well as ridiculous romantic comedies; anti-capitalist movements; global women's movements; writing; environmentalism; natural childbirth; traveling; gardening

I'd like to meet:

if death was not a hindrance to meeting people:
Sappho, Radclyffe Hall, Emma Goldman, Malcolm X, Joan of Ark, Indira Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Siddhartha Gautama, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Mother Theresa, Margaret Sanger, Harriet Tubman, Phyllis Wheatly, Sojourner Truth, Radclyffe Hall, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, etc.
otherwise:
Assata Shakur, members of RAWA, Arundhati Roy, Ellen, Stephen Colbert, Angelina and Brad (heehee,) Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama

Music:

punk, reggae, blues, 60s girl bands, early rock-n-roll, pretty much anything from the 80s, ladies from all genres who can really belt it out, etc.

Movies:

Jodhaa Akbar; Born in Flames; When Fish Fall In Love; Cinema Paradiso; Show Me Love; Otesanek; Daughters of the Dust; Dancer in the Dark; Before Night Falls; The Day I Became A Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini); 28 Days Later; The Notebook; Another State of Mind; Sid and Nancy; Decline of Western Civilization; Donnie Brasco; Cry Baby; Raising Arizona; Freeway; Dead Man; Ma Vie En Rose; Legend; Labyrinth; The Fifth Element; Chocolat; Like Water For Chocolate; The Dreamlife of Angels; Salt of the Earth; The Dreamers; Repo Man; Suburbia; Velvet Goldmine; Mulholland Drive; Me Without You; Valley Girl; Dogs in Space; Dogfight; The Thing Called Love; Mildred Pierce; Ghost World; Princess Bride; Willow; Girls Just Want to Have Fun; The Shag; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story; 10 Things I Hate About You; Go Fish; Amelie; Love, Actually; Fools Rush In; What A Girl Wants; Step Up; The Holiday; Music & Lyrics; Notting Hill; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane; The Filth and The Fury; The Ring; Skeleton Key; Tank Girl; Fight Club; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Bad Education; All About My Mother; The Painted Veil; Memento; City of God; Malcolm X; Do the Right Thing; Saved!; Mad Max; The Road Warrier; Taxi Driver; Kill Bill II; Diary of a Mad Black Woman; How Stella Got Her Groove Back; The Namesake; Stranger Than Fiction; Spirited Away; My Neighbor Totoro; anything with Angelina Jolie - Gia, Foxfire, Hackers, Original Sin, Girl, Interrupted, Tomb Raider I & II, Playing by Heart, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, etc.

Television:

I haven't really watched tv consistently in years, but I like The Colbert Report & The Daily Show.

Books:

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi; The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley; The Well of Lonliness - Radclyffe Hall; Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur; With All Our Strength: RAWA - Anne Brodsky; Living My Life - Emma Goldman; Mother - Maxim Gorky; Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach; The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini; Thousand Pieces of Gold – Ruthanne Lum McCunn; The Red Tent - Anita Diamant; A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn; Shibboleth - Penny Rimbaud; Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown; Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston; Beloved & Son of Solomon - Toni Morrison; The Color Purple - Alice Walker; No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs - Johnny Rotten; Touching From A Distance - Deborah Curtis; Pretty in Punk - Lauraine Leblanc; SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas (muahahaha); Angela Davis's Autobiography; Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg; A Taste of Power - Elaine Brown; The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath; Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen; Warriors Don’t Cry – Melba Pattillo Beals; Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami; Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye - Brad Warner; Against the Stream - Noah Levine; Climbing the Mango Tree: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - Madhur Jaffrey; Kindred - Octavia Butler

Heroes:

jonathan wadleigh; anyone who is working towards a better world where all people, all cultures, all animals, and the environment are respected and treated peacefully and justly

My Blog

moving again

So, I have committed to being a nanny through the end of August and in mid-June, Amber and Shane's house will be completed and thus, we will be moving to Greenville, SC.  I haven't settled into C...
Posted by Ginn on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:34:00 PST

Akon and Isa

Isabel really likes Akon's new radio hit.  She sings, "nobody wants to see us together, but it don't matter, no, zagado."  At first, I tried to tell her that it was "cuz I've got you," ...
Posted by Ginn on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:37:00 PST

ahh, i can finally breathe

We moved to Charlotte, NC last week!  I decided to take a break from my life in Boston of working 60 hours a week to barely cover the most basic of living expenses and moved in with my ...
Posted by Ginn on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:10:00 PST

Kofi Annan's final speech - Dec. 2006

Kofi Annan has delivered his final speech as United Nations Secretary General at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Missouri. The following is the text of the speech; subhead...
Posted by Ginn on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:51:00 PST

I love Stephen Colbert

Colbert's roasting of President Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner STEPHEN COLBERT: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I've been asked to make an announcement. Whoever p...
Posted by Ginn on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:02:00 PST

Hugo Chavez Speech at United Nations

PRESIDENT CHAVEZ DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLYSEPTEMBER 20, 2006SPEAKER: HUGO CHAVEZ, PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA"Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you...
Posted by Ginn on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:52:00 PST

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" soc...
Posted by Ginn on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:06:00 PST

i got you, babe

When we get ready to go to bed, Isa and I sing a bunch of songs. I was bored with our repetoire and added parts of a few rock songs in the past few days...this morning, as we were walking to school, I...
Posted by Ginn on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:47:00 PST

Andy Rooney from CBS 60 Minutes on 30+ women

"As I grow in age, I value women who are over 30 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?" She doe...
Posted by Ginn on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:27:00 PST